Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. [0-7710-6670-8] 1996, 1st edition, 1st printing. (hardcover) 545pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 8vo. Brown cloth boards, lettering in bronze to spine. Lightest shelfwear. Custom bookplate to ffep. Else internally fine. Bright and clean. 28 stories culled from seven previous short story collections..

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Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.

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Bookseller: Spafford Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 113611
Title: Selected Stories
Author: Munro, Alice
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 2
ISBN 10: 0771066708
ISBN 13: 9780771066702
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Place of Publication: Toronto
This edition first published: 1996
Keywords: Canadian Literature, Alice Munro, Literature, Literature - Canada, Nobel Prize, Short Stories

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